I grew up the Biracial daughter of a White single mother in a town with very little racial or ethnic diversity in the early 1980s. In honor of Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, I’m sharing my experiences as a person who has used difference as a doorway, rather than a wall. An unpopular opinion In my hometown, nobody was validating nonbinary identities and experiences. Everyone I knew who was of a mixed-race background identified with their marginalized race to the excl